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" I got the 'I don't want the normal job' bug. At home, we have countless career advisors who would tell us to work in department stores and stay below the bar and not overreach our grasp. I didn't believe any of them. "

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" I wasn't interested in football. It made me different. I wore glasses, had bad hair, a funny name, you name it. "

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" It's great to sit and talk about the films and the people I work with, rather than where I buy my socks or whatever. "

" I think that the process of trying to become somebody else, and obviously the director/actor relationship in trying to do that, is such a weird, undefinable thing. "

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" I was asked by this British band called Kairos 4Tet to write lyrics for them. And I wrote lyrics for them. The album is called 'Everything We Hold,' and you can hear my lyrics. "

" The one thing I couldn't imagine is stopping still. "

" I'm a terrible dancer. "

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" I don't do glamorous things. "

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" Everybody has many people inside of them; I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first, in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want. It gets really interesting when this technique fails, and other levels are revealed. "

" I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind. "

" Even if it's a bit blunt, I really appreciate somebody being straight with you. "

" I'm always interested in what we're not being shown. So if you're playing ostensibly a quote-unquote 'baddie,' what are their good sides, and vice versa. "

" Becoming that guy who does one thing is not very interesting. I'm lucky and proud to have been involved in period films and action films. "

" The old saying, 'An army marches on its stomach' has never been more true than in film and television. If it's good, cheerful, and exciting and full of great yummy things, then everyone does really well. If it's the opposite, it's very disappointing. "

" I guess the reason I wanted to be an actor was that it felt like it would offer something different all the time. "

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" I've never thought it was a good idea to act back-to-back. "

" When I come home, all I do is cook. I love cooking, so I go to markets, buy food, cook it for friends. I love doing that. "

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" Edinburgh is so cultural and such a beautiful place to walk around. "

" People say I have a scary face. I find that to be a mixed compliment. "

" I have to be absolutely drawn to the project. If you're ashamed or bored by it at the beginning, it's going to be a pretty nightmarish thing. "

" I get bored quickly. Always have. Short attention span. "

" I find it easier to approach things from a critical angle that otherwise may seem daunting because I'm used to being scared. "

" I'm studying Krav Maga, which is an Israeli form of self defense. It's very deadly and without rules. "

" If I make a film about now, the minute it was done, it wouldn't be about now; it'd be about then. "

" I was quite solitary for 'Hitman.' I was quite apart. He struck me as a very sad individual. There was a mournful quality there. "

" I've never got a part in the same way twice. I've never prepared the same way. I've never experienced the filming the process the same way. "

" My father started his own business, and before that was a freelance lecturer, and my friends are artists and musicians; they don't have real jobs - none of us have real jobs. "

" We have characters in Western television shows who are in full health with shiny hair and shiny teeth, and they go about their lives having minor problems. "

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" I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could! "

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